Supporting Teachers A Foundation for Advancing Inclusive Education

Gary Bunch at York University's Faculty of Education (2002),1 symposia involving knowledgeable people on teacher education and research in inclusive education, a review of Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey (NPHS) of 1998 and the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) of 2001, as well as focused discussions with Canadian leaders in inclusive education and the Canadi [...] Since the Confederation of Canada, governments and ordinary citizens have recognized the importance education and have made public provision for its universal availability to children and youth at the elementary and high school levels. [...] A review of the research and consultations with researchers, and with community and teacher organizations like the Canadian Association for Community Living and the. [...] A. Defining Terms: Inclusive Education with a Focus on the Teacher The proposed framework for inclusive education is based on the premise that teachers should have the instructional and other supports to: • welcome and include all learners, in all of their diversity and exceptionalities, in the regular classroom, in the neighbourhood school with their age peers: • foster the participation and full [...] B. The Centrality of the Teacher What emerges clearly in the research is that inclusive education results from the leadership of teachers in the classroom.